After the huge success of the 2008 Unlock Xbox competition, Microsoft and Doritos have teamed up again to offer you budding developers the chance to have your game turned into an Xbox Live Arcade title.
This year there will be two independent works converted into XBLA games, with the most popular, fan-selected developer being granted a “$50,000 dream assignment as Doritos Gaming Consultant”.
Hit the jump to find out how to enter.
If you own a PS2 and have never played either of the first two God of War games, you should consider yourself a failure as a gamer. These titles not only represent the pinnacle of PS2 game development, but they also created one of the most popular and feared characters in all of gaming: Kratos. If you missed the chance to play them, you missed out on some of the best hack and slash action adventure gameplay ever created.
Luckily, Sony is not content leaving the God of War games to sit and collect dust in the PS2 catalog. As of today they have announced they will be bringing the first two titles to the PS3, in one full HD collection. Read on to find out more. Read more… »
Ghostfire Games, who happens to be one of the nicest development teams I’ve had the pleasure of working with, has released some new assets for their upcoming Wiiware title Rage of the Gladiator. In case you haven’t heard of this game before, essentially Rage is an old school type 3-D combat game in the vein of Punchout, and only contains high intensity boss battles.
Feel free to enjoy the exclusive battle theme, made publicly available free of charge from Ghostfire, and a new trailer after the jump. Read more… »
It’s time for the PS3 firmware to finally leave the terrible twos behind and upgrade to the new and exciting version 3.00. Later this evening the new firmware update, originally announced earlier this month at Gamescom, will finally be unleashed upon the public for mass download. Along with it will come a laundry list of features including multiple cosmetic and navigation related changes, which are sure to make everyone’s experience a little bit better.
In case you’ve forgotten what the new features are, or if you never saw them to begin with, hit the jump for a complete list. Read more… »
The PSN garage is becoming continually clogged with waves of exclusive, cheap and cheerful racing games. Toy Home and GTI Club + were always the frontrunners, but now there’s another one with Smash Cars, a new RC racer from Creat Studios.
These games pride themselves on being both fun and accessible slices of low fat goodness, so how does Smash Cars fare after pulling up alongside its established neighbours? Read more… »
Phil Day of New South Wales Australia has sat down (or stood up for that matter) for just over two days and destroyed the past world record score for the arcade classic Galaga with a massive 3.44 million score.
Hit the jump for a very interesting quote from the record beaker.
[Hello and welcome to another stupendous edition of The Week in News, your weekly resource of gratifying gaming news kindly sewn together by Gamer Limit.]
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Gaming rage: we’ve all experienced it, or even recorded it. When we play games, we do it for fun, to cure boredom, or to simply blow off some steam. It’s when we start to get absorbed and begin to actually get good at the game a little voice triggers with every death, failed race, and missed jump. Although not audible, it mocks and urges us to either elegantly ignore it, or satisfy its needs.
The need to rage.
Extracting what Avi Winkler, Senior Games Designer at A2M, has spilled regarding their upcoming shooter WET, he says gamers shouldn’t dismiss it due to A2M’s family-friendly background. That said, we probably won’t. The Eliza Dushku-casted game is rated Mature (M), and as the demo proved, swearing is indeed part of the foray. The same goes for the buckets of blood.
Check inside to read the extract from the interview with Gamer Limit.
He kinda looks like Gizmo, is almost as cute and is invading your Playstation 3 this year. Sony’s Eyepet has the potential to be this year’s must have Christmas gift for younger gamers, tapping into the same market that made Nintendogs such a success for Nintendo. While I don’t fit into that demographic I still really want one, he’s just so damn cute!
Read on for the release date and the official trailer in all its sugar coated awesomeness.
In a recent interview with Tim Schafer, creative director of the upcoming Brütal Legend and high king of point and click adventure, we found out something extremely interesting in regards to his inspiration for his recent titles.
When asked about his recent shift from point and click adventure games to the action genre, he responded: ” I always follow what I’m inspired to do. In order to bring the world of album covers and epic music to life; you have to give the guy a broad axe [in reference to Brütal Legend], which requires an action game. As for Psychonauts, that was inspired by my experiences playing Ocarina of Time/Mario 64.”
Stay tuned for the full upcoming interview, as it contains tons of juicy tidbits on both Brütal Legend and Tim Schafer’s career as a designer!
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The first screenshot from Grand Theft Auto IV’s soon-to-be-released DLC, The Ballad of Gay Tony, was just released.
But wait, there’s more! Hit the jump. Do it now!
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